Run a county industry scan from WhatsApp
When a message asks about local industry activity, pull County Business Patterns for the named year, industry, and geography.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered in real time when your WhatsApp Business number receives an inbound message from a customer (text, media, location, or contact). Delivered via the Cloud API webhook.
Action
Get County Business Patterns
Tool to retrieve county business patterns (cbp) data for a specified year. use when you need county-level business establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography.
Why this helps
County-level establishment and employment research is easy to postpone when a request lands in a busy chat thread.
- Keep industry research requests from slipping through chat.
- Use the requested year, industry, and geography for the retrieval.
- Identify incomplete requests before the lookup.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect WhatsApp and Census bureau once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation and describe the county industry scan outcome in one instruction.
- 3Pick the New Message Received trigger.
- 4Choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real request naming year, industry, and geography.
Questions about this workflow
What can County Business Patterns provide?
The action retrieves county-level business establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography for a specified year.
What if a message only names a county?
Have Notis ask for the missing year or industry scope rather than selecting one without guidance.
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Get County Business Patterns
Tool to retrieve county business patterns (cbp) data for a specified year. use when you need county-level business establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography.
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